Thursday, November 11th
13:00 Arrival
13:30-13:45
Short Welcome and Introduction
Stefan Berger, ISB Bochum
Alexandra Przyrembel, FernUniversität in Hagen
13:45-15:15
Gender/Racism
Sophie van den Elzen, Utrecht University: Antislavery and 'Slavery' in the Transnational Women's Movement
Ole Merkel, ISB Bochum: Racism and Anti-Slavery in the British and German Working-Class Movement, 1830-1890
Comment: Marcel van der Linden, IISG Amsterdam
15:15-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:00
Networks/History of Knowledge
Sarah Lentz, University of Bremen: „A Communion of minds with minds“? German Anti-Slavery Activism and the Atlantic Movement around 1850: Transnational Networks, Cooperation and Transfers of Ideas
Anna Stibbe, Utrecht University: The resistance discourse of a Black Atlantic learned community. A citation network of nineteenth-century Black intellectuals
Comment: Maartje Janse, University of Leiden
17:00-17:15 Coffee Break
17:15-18:00
Interactions
Michael Zeuske, University of Bonn: Alexander von Humboldt - from observer of an "empire of slavery" to abolitionist and anti-racist
Julian Windhövel, University of Cologne: Washington in Louisiana – Political, Economic and Judicial Interactions between Former Slaves and Federal Representatives and the White Backlash in the Bayou State, 1865-1868.
Comment: Ryan Hanley, University of Exeter
18:30 Dinner
Friday, November 12th
9:00-10:30
Movements I
Maartje Janse, University of Leiden: Abolitionist movements, 1820s-1860s: navigating likeness and difference
Kevin Absilis, University of Antwerpen: 'Freedom at last, but stay with you good master!' - Abolitionism and paternalism in the 19th-century Flemish Movement
Comment: Clare Midgley, Sheffield Hallam University
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-12:15
Movements II
Richard Huzzey, University of Durham: Antislavery translocal
Andi Zimmerman, George Washington University: West Africa and Anti-Slavery in the United States Civil War
Comment: Stefan Berger, ISB Bochum
12:15-12:45
Final Discussion
Chair: Norbert Finzsch, University of Cologne